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A python-yara security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: python-yara-4.2.0-5.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-21cf5402fc
2022-08-17 01:05:09.336585
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Name : python-yara
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 4.2.0
Release : 5.fc36
URL :   https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara-python/
Summary : Python binding for the YARA pattern matching tool
Description :

Python binding for the YARA pattern matching tool.
YARA is a tool aimed at (but not limited to) helping malware researchers to
identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions
of malware families (or whatever you want to describe) based on textual or
binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strings
and a Boolean expression which determine its logic.

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Update Information:

Update to yara-4.2.3 ---- Update to 4.2.0 ---- Update to 4.2.2
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Aug 9 2022 Mikel Olasagasti Uranga - 4.2.0-5
- Rebuilt for yara-4.2.3
* Mon Aug 8 2022 Mikel Olasagasti Uranga - 4.2.0-4
- Skip testModuleData again for F36, fixes rhbz#2116289
* Fri Jul 22 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 4.2.0-3
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Jun 13 2022 Python Maint - 4.2.0-2
- Rebuilt for Python 3.11
* Fri May 27 2022 Mikel Olasagasti Uranga - 4.2.0-1
- Bump to 4.2.0 rhbz#2063287 fixes FTBFS rhbz#2064646
- Minor changes to spec, like using https for URL
- Simplify some of checks for different builds
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2112508 - Update yara to 4.2.2
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2112508
[ 2 ] Bug #2116289 - F36FailsToInstall: python3-yara
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116289
[ 3 ] Bug #2116594 - yara-4.2.3 is available
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116594
[ 4 ] Bug #2117081 - F36FailsToInstall: python3-yara
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2117081
[ 5 ] Bug #2117161 - python-yara-4.2.3 is available
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2117161
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-21cf5402fc' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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